Help with identifying a motorcycle please (?)

G_YamTech_314 · Oct 7, 2020

A friend sent me this asking to help him identify it. He seems to think it's a Honda dream
He says it's a 1968 based off the title. The vin is posted in a picture below.

I have a hard time with this specifically because the pictures I've found of the Honda dream as a restored bike show the motor being a kind of forward leaning motor. This one in the picture is more upright. I'm thinking if it IS a dream, it's the
450. Thoughts guys? I appreciate the help.

azman857 · Oct 7, 2020

Looks like a 305 Dream to me. Came we have a closer pic of the engine please? They had a single carb and this one looks to have 2. Maybe someone in its past wanted more power and bolted on a CB or CL 77 on.

azman857 · Oct 7, 2020

Wait a second...that is a 450 engine. Black Bomber?

Ratranger · Oct 7, 2020

The vin is for a 305 dream. The engine is wrong. At some point the engine was swapped for a non sloper.

gggGary · Oct 7, 2020

Looks like a dream chassis with "some other motor" a 175, 350, or 360 motor, is that a YAMAHA motor? ) butchered into it. Carbs look like keihins..? As far as I remember and could find, all the dreams had forward slanted cylinders. 69 was the intro of the cb350 I think the CLs and superhawks made it into 68 the 305 dream was gone. I'll call that it's parts, nothing more.
I'll say it. I have no fondness for dreams, thought they were ugly then and just frumpy now.

Ratranger · Oct 7, 2020

I'm pretty sure it's a CB360 motor. Oil fill, starter, and head shape all match.

Jim · Oct 7, 2020

Ratranger said:
I'm pretty sure it's a CB360 motor. Oil fill, starter, and head shape all match.

Agree. mid - late 70's CB360.

Jim · Oct 7, 2020

gggGary said:
I'll say it. I have no fondness for dreams, thought they were ugly then and just frumpy now.

Yeah....'sides bein' butt fugly, that leading link front end took some gettin' used to. Was one of the few bikes I've owned where a high speed steering input might or might not get you the desired result. Throw a pothole in there and it got downright scary. :yikes:

5twins · Oct 8, 2020

Yes, CB360 motor, have a look .....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/74-HONDA-C...233429828734?_trksid=p2385738.m4383.l4275.c10

G_YamTech_314 · Oct 8, 2020

Thanks everyone...

I knew 100% that you would all detect the truth about this bike. Unfortunately I can't give any more pictures because he had that sent to him from the seller.

Personally, I think it looks like a good anchor. But one man's trash is another man's treasure so what the hell, live and let live.

gggGary · Oct 8, 2020

The cb77 motor's chain drive was on the RH side, the CB350/360 and nearly all hondas after that have the chain on the left.

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